FOOTNOTES:[1]“From Cape Freels, Newfoundland, to Erris Head, Ireland, the distance is 1,611 miles; from Cape Charles, or Cape St. Lewis, Labrador, to ditto, the distance is 1,601 miles.”[2]Short-lived as was the former Cable, it had survived long enough to prove its value in a financial point of view. Amongst 400 messages which it had transmitted, was one that had been dispatched from London in the morning and reached Halifax the same day, directing “that the 62nd Regiment were not to return to England.” This timely warning saved the country an expenditure of 50,000l.[3]Communicated to theMechanics’ Magazine.[4]It may here be stated that Admiral Talbot, in command at the Nore, gave every aid to the undertaking; and that Captain Hall, of the Sheerness Dockyard, was indefatigable and most serviceable in forwarding the work whilst the Great Eastern lay in the Medway and at the Nore.
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[1]“From Cape Freels, Newfoundland, to Erris Head, Ireland, the distance is 1,611 miles; from Cape Charles, or Cape St. Lewis, Labrador, to ditto, the distance is 1,601 miles.”
[1]“From Cape Freels, Newfoundland, to Erris Head, Ireland, the distance is 1,611 miles; from Cape Charles, or Cape St. Lewis, Labrador, to ditto, the distance is 1,601 miles.”
[2]Short-lived as was the former Cable, it had survived long enough to prove its value in a financial point of view. Amongst 400 messages which it had transmitted, was one that had been dispatched from London in the morning and reached Halifax the same day, directing “that the 62nd Regiment were not to return to England.” This timely warning saved the country an expenditure of 50,000l.
[2]Short-lived as was the former Cable, it had survived long enough to prove its value in a financial point of view. Amongst 400 messages which it had transmitted, was one that had been dispatched from London in the morning and reached Halifax the same day, directing “that the 62nd Regiment were not to return to England.” This timely warning saved the country an expenditure of 50,000l.
[3]Communicated to theMechanics’ Magazine.
[3]Communicated to theMechanics’ Magazine.
[4]It may here be stated that Admiral Talbot, in command at the Nore, gave every aid to the undertaking; and that Captain Hall, of the Sheerness Dockyard, was indefatigable and most serviceable in forwarding the work whilst the Great Eastern lay in the Medway and at the Nore.
[4]It may here be stated that Admiral Talbot, in command at the Nore, gave every aid to the undertaking; and that Captain Hall, of the Sheerness Dockyard, was indefatigable and most serviceable in forwarding the work whilst the Great Eastern lay in the Medway and at the Nore.